An elderly man exits the shop in an old\nfashioned wheelchair. I interrupt my writing of a kink modern Western\nto watch him wheel down 101. Another patron says the old man just\nmoved from Portland and is gold mining in the area. Mining gold from\na wheelchair? Got to work that in the Western.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On my way to the shop, at approximately\n6:45 in the morning, near the turnout off 101 where all the surfers\npark, in the shoulder of the road, stood a figure with long straight\nbrown hair past the shoulders, wearing a fur coat of some kind, and\ntight yellow terrycloth shorts with white piping. I didn’t see any\nbaggage around the figure. As I drove past, I saw the face of the\nfigure\u2014it was a man in his 60s or 70s, clean shaven, looking a\nlittle spent. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What in the world could he (she?) be\ndoing there at that hour on the Oregon Coast. I could only surmise he\nwas waiting to get picked up by a trucker. I’ve got to work this\ncharacter in the Western. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the wheelchair man left, an older\nman enters the shop with his ukulele. He often bikes in from a nearby\ncampground and plays for his breakfast. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is just settling in when an older\nwoman wearing pink yoga pants, black leg warmers, some kind of\nFlashdance <\/em>cut sweatshirt bolts into the shop. Her hair is\nwhite and spiked in Mohawk fashion. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n She strikes up a conversation with\nukulele man and I learn she is driving her trailer up and down the\nOregon and California coasts and serving as a mobile minister to\nwomen suffering from sexual abuse. I take a gander at her trailer\nparked outside and it’s stickered and painted with all manner of\nhealing statements, affirmations and scriptures. Apparently, she\npulls over in turnout with a grand view of the ocean or sets up shop\nin a campground, and, well, starts preaching. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n She sees the man’s ukulele and said she\nhas one her in trailer. She rushes out to get it, and a few minutes\nlater after coffee, saying grace, and a breakfast burrito, the two\nare playing and singing Amazing Grace <\/em>six feet away from me. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n This scene will somehow make it into\nthe Western, but it could go either way\u2014dark or redemptive. I’m\nthinking the former is better for kink. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An elderly man exits the shop in an old fashioned wheelchair. I interrupt my writing of a kink modern Western to watch him wheel down 101. Another patron says the old man just moved from Portland and is gold mining in the area. Mining gold from a wheelchair? Got to work that in the Western. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[652,102,13],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-coffee-shop-writing","tag-highway-101","tag-oregon-coast","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}